When it comes to SEO plugins, most people use All In One SEO Pack. In most cases reason for that is simplicity of this plugin. But that simplicity comes with the price: that plugin has very limited number of features. At first, I used that plugin, but once I decided that I need more, I began searching for better plugin. And that’s how I found HeadSpace2.

Features

HeadSpace is much more than just a SEO plugin. It also features a number of smaller modules that can add various code into pages, modify some of the WordPress options and eliminate need for additional plugins. The total number of features is quite impressive. Without going into too many details, plugin can:

Site Modules

Site Modules

  • Control in many details title, keywords and description for each page, for different classes of pages (archives, search…) using special tags.
  • Integration on categories, posts and other WordPress editor pages allowing easier modification of each content element.
  • Page related modules allowing you to change some of the WordPress features like RSS feeds, plugins, CSS and many more. With these modules you control page title format, description lenght and keywords/tags.
  • Website related modules that will be added to all blog pages. This include Google Analytics, Feedburner Stats, many more hit and access counters.
  • Import SEO data from other related plugins.
Meta Data

Meta Data

Control your SEO data

Main task for HeadSpace2 is to optimize SEO for the website. My suggestion is that after installing the plugin, on a blog that already has posts, update all relevant meta data. For this, easiest is to use Meta-Data panel in Tools menu. You can filter the list of meta elements for posts and pages and manually or automatically insert values.

After that you need to set defaults for SEO values for different types of pages like search, post, page, archive and others. This is located on main plugin panel in the Settings menu. On the same panel, you need to activate some of the site wide modules if you need.

Further Plugin Improvements

Despite all the features this plugin has, and relative ease of use, there are few things I would like to see changed. Most important is to create top level menu and place all the plugin panels under that menu. This will allow better access to plugin features. It’s better to have centralized administration for such complex plugin.

Rating

Features10/10
Integration9/10
Usability9/10
Administration7/10
Support9/10
8.8/10
Average rating: 8.8

Also, it would be good to see more options for some of the modules like Google Analytics and several others. Other than that, I don’t have any more complaints about plugin.

Conclusion

This is very powerful plugin that will improve your blog SEO and allow you replace some of the plugins with a single plugin. So, download it and try it for yourself, compare it to SEO plugin you already use and you will see the real power of HeadSpace2.

Plugin Homepage: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/